{"id":933,"date":"2008-08-11T22:50:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T03:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2008-08-11T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T03:53:36","slug":"mas-saves-millions-with-lamp-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/11\/mas-saves-millions-with-lamp-stack","title":{"rendered":"MAS saves millions with LAMP stack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian Airlines has impressed me, yet again. Last week, in The Star, they <a href=\"http:\/\/star-techcentral.com\/tech\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/8\/5\/itfeature\/1668352&amp;sec=itfeature\">reported<\/a> that Sharul Isahak, a MAS employee, has helped save the airlines close to RM70 million (about USD$21 million), thanks to his use of <strong>open source software<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The software is meant to help airline maintenance, i.e. to keep track of parts and records of maintenance works. The web-based solution, is <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiaairlinesblog.com\/?p=40\">E-Promis<\/a><\/em> (read the blog entry, its pretty interesting, as he takes you through the planning stages &#8211; it also seems like he&#8217;s still the only developer).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> \u201cThis meant looking at open-source solutions. Instead of platforms such as Microsoft or Sun, we chose LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP)\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but grin inside, a little. After all, Sun do own the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/products\/mysql\/index.jsp\">M<\/a> in LAMP ;-)<\/p>\n<p>Next up, wonder if they will open source it, ala <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/05\/malaysian-government-releases-first-open-source-software-package-mymeeting\">MyMeeting<\/a>? After all, MAS services AirAsia and JetStar planes, I wonder who else will benefit from such software.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20MAS%20saves%20millions%20with%20LAMP%20stack&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F08%2F11%2Fmas-saves-millions-with-lamp-stack&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Last week, in The Star, they reported that Sharul Isahak, a MAS employee, has helped save the airlines close to RM70 million (about USD$21 million), thanks to his use of open source software. The software is meant to help airline maintenance, i.e. to keep track of parts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20MAS%20saves%20millions%20with%20LAMP%20stack&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F08%2F11%2Fmas-saves-millions-with-lamp-stack&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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